The Sun. — London, England, 1826-08-18 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The statute which professes to guard the public against the abominable practice of 'adulterating bread and flour seems to be lamentably inefficient. Within a few months, two instances of gross adulteration of flour have been ex posed in the justice-room at Guildhall, and the Magistrates 'have openly or tacitly admitted their inability to reach the . offinderS.. The Act to which we allude (3d Geo. IV., ... cap. 106) provides, that if any person shall, within . ten miles of the 'Royal Exchange, " knowingly sell, or offer or. expose ' for sale, either separately or mixed, any meal or, flour of one sort of corn or grain, as the meal or flour of any other tort of corn or grain, or any ingredient whatever mixed With the Meal or flour so sold, or offered or exposed for sale," every person so offending shall forfeit not ex ceeding /0/., nor less than 51. When a person discovers that he has purchased some poisonous stuff instead. of flour and complaint to the Magistrate with a view to the punishment of the adulterator, he is asked what rea son he can assign from which the :Magistrate may infer the party 9 knowingly" sold, or exposed to sale, an impure fttixture; beeautie unless * cunseienaness of the impurity was in some way manifested, the Magistrate has no' authority to interfere. , Here the case hall al ways broken down, for the complainant declines swear ing that he even suspects the party with whom he is in the habit of dealing to be aware of the fraud: his sus picions Usually rest wholly on the miller or factor. When a load of hay, deficient in weight, or fraudulently packed, has been, sold, the seller may be convicted wit hou t an y -inquiry es to whether he was aware of the fraud or defi ciency, *Mahe party convicted hus his remedy against the party from whom he received the hay ; and whymay nut the same course be adopted with regard to the sellers of adulterated flour and bread, and the party vending it be punishable, whether }leis aware of the fraud or not, lean him to recover the fine from the party of whom he bought the article ? The right of the magistrate to Search for and seise. adulterated flour and bread is also limited, by the shove-mentioned acts to the s premises of " millers, mealmen, and bikers," leaving all the general dealers or chandlers shops-;-all thoae whe do , not make, although they sell bread—exempt from the operation of the lavis— h was from a shop of the latter description the precious specimen of what is called flour, which we had occasion to notice a few days ago, was purchased.—Tirnes. , , Atnepg.the eircuinstances by which our times are ad vantageonaly distinguished front the three of our fathers, there is.uo one of which we beim more cause to boast than the understanding 'which now .exists as to the necessity of renouncing all attempts to prevent the public from looking into subleete in which they era interested, by investing them Ifithiartifliiiii dilfeulties. The public is interested in no sulajeet so, much as in the Law, for they never can be too *A Xequainted with that, on the' Observation of the rules Of Which their personal safety; and the security for their propirty depend.", If law were to be wrapped up in. a tarp:oe tuentelligib i le to all but the individuals who had made it a particular study, this would be, constituting the individuals in question the arbitrary masters of the lives and properties of the rest of a nation,--for, when they mo nopolised the knowledge of the law, they could render no reason for , their conduct, which would be intelligible tb therytenee, •to 'whoid their decisions would, there-, fore, appear perfectly arbitrary. As la* is intended for the guidance of men, its first quality, 'therefore, ought to be intelligibility; and the strongest Condem nation, we can pass on the law 'of a country is to say, Oat it al - mends in subtleties, which can only be mastered after a long and arduous 'study.— Newspapers have certainly been prodoctive; among other great benefits, of that, of familiarizing the great body of the people with thelew;hy moue of ,the RepOrts of caaeo decided in the Courts.. :The Judges andsti*Tisterli .have been greditally.brought to expiates themielves 'in a. mans ner level to the a ppritheneions of . thei peopliteand taught to feel that the public hive ti right to underetwnel , th mu The peop4 agit, ill rate ante gradually,ptit in posiesaion of ,a . hod y of knowledge of ties utmost importance to th e mselves, which few of them would ever otherwise be able to se. quire. We offer these observations as an apology for our eagerness to tanderatund, anti to enable:our readers to iln. deratand, the, dietinetione taken by, the lieges of the law, and more particularly the Lorca Chancellor and Vice-Chancellor. By the decisions of these Judges, interests of the greatest magnitude lyre every day ;affected,. and too much attention lyre every ' wh a t ' passes • cannot, therefore, be bestowed en . _ in the ir Courto. s. Niggitgueled yesterday to the .attack 'made by the Cyrt.l,. ellOZ, a i Uthe :Case Ex-ie./de Bourne in re tteri Bourpf; -i t !*00c,.-qt . therotto ve c utindi of the Vice. Chtureell4Y..; Allii Lordship: professed :himself utterly on able to understand that, reason, Yesterday, Mr. Heald read his Hinitaiistr 'Aeons from the striated Report of the case heard in the Court helots, and,thei.ivere these 1.-t- " Cfflirti of Justice (*aid his Ifonour) hives limiting, MA) with the motives of parties, whithei: the motive* he just or unjust.. If a commisaion, iesued open an unjust motive, .becomes an effi cient instrinnent of jiand, and the . ltankruPt cannot he relieved from the fain', of 'which time Commilcsion in en instrument, butt by sititetlitig the,Commission, the Court will interfere, and so pors, the Commission, in order to defeat the fraud ; . but., how ever toinst the ,tnntivsof the Petitioning Creditor mil he, if the frautlitlentYpatimie May he dell..ated, withalt superseding the Comeilasion, the tourt will not interfere." • ~ • , Now let us hear the Lord Chancellor : •••• '' • -'' " & man inight 144 a very battniotive. ter taking out a CoW mission ofl)sailttoptcy t but if be really took it out for the Pr -, pose of using it et it, P0tt4411,4410,40 ,e ski , tint say that the pro ctedirtg:Was wro 1 ng. , 1.4 question in the presen t Case' Watt —VAO the tntroolision taken omit for the express purpose of preventing the trial 'Of the action? ; Thedocialt4 of-thisto point. would ‘ l "•Per 4d opowthat cVitlesast.'i . - . ~. . i , Wi th tespect 'to the moo' which snarl .roam meat' to the Vice Chancellor, n o explanation :had yet been givcn.with respect to it,,,andhe could not u nderstand it . ; nor had Ito found. any. va s ,Who soy , hoesit . cook! be carried . , _ rebid into effect.", Ik' secant t o us that the I Cheneellor has, as is not unfreetieut with him, taken a distinction which is More apparent .than real. " ,Gotos.4o Justice (says his Iletteur) hue nothiug to do with the motives of parties, who wart hi it legal manner their, legal r ights, whether the motives he just or unjust." " A man might have a very had motile (says his Lordship) for taking out a Conpnissiop, but if he stal . fr took it out for the purpose of using it as a Commission, he could not say that the proceeding was vvrong," __The asserting legal rights' in a legal manner , se ems to tan o t i airtount to the taking nut the Ceminissionfio the p la u rp e ?J' !ming it as ts C'ommiSsion ad using for the using it as 4 Cononvlslon ivoolii . not be (milli regal * • legal' ineovit„.-. • : A. ,„; aiiit _ ~l e ..,„ 0 ' , rig rights vs a out for ihe ex, , ,,r,.., __ r;5.,(.; .moi r vitoon. might be takthi yet: ailed tvi 4,o;;;o4JsUjou: e r g preventig - the trial, taut motive determining die crerlitor l ,; e a .v v P d r t f; ; s i t oro Pl4 ts rP i;: e qU i e s at t io h i ci l . but that that motive may bc either just or unjust. But acco rding tt)%ot , h'.Pulges, the question would seem really hot on the far uof the c.!arn to hinge„ not on the purpo Ne , m i ss ion, whatever the. purpose, 1 0 : t it' a Commission. The, erapiras purp„'„,,,"g. v,brie„rl.lllY used' at Mita ili Mai out a Conurnoiop, may be'to.-7.(ltelmines n rapt and his wife and children to the wor 6 1:11 9 I t" h"lic he have=rt legal right to take out the Ce rrut i ss l4 ,: ; but ; if he itse it'.as a Commission,, his ° e xp res s:, imrpouin! alert if tiatierti tOeome within the range of legit inquiry.vv?,;i4hu Vice-Chancellor says, that a legal Commissionrefill: used as. a Comniissioa; - but under .wkicti it - -irag was ,-',. ternplated to. the bankrupt, maY be allowed to. subsist, ancl yet, that the bankrupt flue) obtain redress by, an ac, tion. - 'The Lord Chanceltor again „' not 1,r,13,"" efiett Cad be given to the views of his honour. I.tgrit w ill o f course be-thrown aro this pita ill the subsequent stagiA, if hisLoidillip ever ' re ads the evidence, which be has utt. sh to (10.--AP/riling (Virtmiele. IMNGE v rry. eY l in net in the possessio n of a 1 ) "" 11 'residing in 'Kincardine, died last week, hay. ears ; and an,,ined the extraordinary age of 12 y vo cal 'hat I. very, singular, poor Dick r etained his w P"" 3 taiiffiraiTed, until within a few weeks of his titath.—EdinbUrkh Evening Courant. LAW INTELLIGENCE. .. , . COURT OF CHANCERY, -Mx , . 17. EX-PARTE BOURNE 114 ItE socatie, A BAN?CRUP.T. 141 r. Hearn was heard in eoricluskin upon this Bankrupt Peti lien, and was followed by Mr. Rosa on the same Aide, The latter Learned Gentleman read from the printed report of the Case, beard in the Court below, Ids Honour's reUons for refusing to ruperside the Commission. "'Conde of Justice," said his Hii nowt'', " have nothing to do with the motives of parties 'who assert in a legal manner their: legal rights, whether the motives he jitst:or unjust. If , a commission issued upon an unjust mo tive beet - ones an efficient instrument of fraud, and the bankrupt cannotibe relieved from the fraud of .whisk the commission. is an instrument, but by superseding the cotrituiesion, the. Court will interfere and supersede, the commission, ,in order to defeat the fraud .; but, however *net the motive of the petitioning creditor ma y he, if the fraudulent purpoae may be defeated without super seding ;the commission, the Court will not interfere." ' The!LORD CHANCELLOR still professed his inability to under stand the reasons by which his Honour had been governed in ar riving et this conclusion. ' hir.j Haler and Mr. Sevarotot spoke in support of the turn mission, and contended that the Court had no right lo act upon its' judgment of motives in the present case. The powers given to the creditors had here been legally used, and they must have the credit Sid' having so used theM with a good motive. The allege dons against Mr. Bennett were- -wholly unfounded, and there was no pretence for superteding the commission. Mr. Mean, at mune length, replied, and commented upon the length of time which had been occupied bylitt. Hart in his ad dress tp the Court, embracing a space of time much longer than himself and the two junior Counsel put together. i The Loan CHAriczt,Lop remembered au anecdote about long speechoes which had been told of .1..0rd Thurlow soon after that Noble ;Lord took his seat as Chancellor. , A very Learned Gentle toast, *hose name was Maddock, made a very long-Winded speech, , and before he had half got to the end of it, Lord Tlitirlow asked' hint when he intended to fiotah. ' The Counsel replied that he had rutt nearly done, and that it was customary in this way to feel the pulse of a new Chancellor. " That may be all very well," rejoined his Lordship, "but who is to pay the Doctor?" The LORD CHANCELLOR said that this ease required further consithwetion before lie could, venture to pronounce his opinion.— It appeared that in this bankruptcy, one of the clerks of the soli citor under the commission (that clerk being an attorney), wits ep pointed a Commissioner. .: This was a moist improper practice, boomer the consequence would be that this clerk, would after wards.tax his master's bill. For the purpose of preventing a re currence of such a. proceeding, he should make an order, direeting that nb solicitor should permit his clerk to be a Commisgiooer in that Commissioit in which he is acting as solicitor. The case which, ca me out of Yorkshire, and which was heard some ti nt s since, ail a lesson upon this point. In that ease, it was a. com plete hargain for fees between the'Fiolicitor and Commissioners. — A. greet variety of orders had been made in bankruptcy, , and he would venture to say that these orders had done more good than 2 or 1100 judgments in bankruptcy. Mei Heats feared, that such an order as his Lordship proposed to make, would not prevent different , Solicitors employing each , 1 other's clerks as Uommisaioners.- , MI it" 1.1 ALo having concluded his reply, The Loan CH4NCELOR intended to carry the or der to the st full extent. There was another sort of pr oceedin g in this case, ran which he; could not reconcile to his judicial mind. It was said; that tis bankrupt was not a trader, and it was said. too , tha t be cause the bankrupt was to, pay' Coats, the whole iroceeding was to be;changed. After a long and laberious life of thought and of experience, either sitting nit Judge in that 'chair, or in the much um more Comfortable : Mid enviable place among the Gentlemen of the of liar, e said he had learnt that he'coold not, And ought not, to re( deparf from .the rules laid down by his , predecessors in the office, .del with feeling a strong apprehenaion that he was wrung. He there ire dared not, mid woOld, not, depart from the duty of deciding hiniself in . cases of this nature, if • the circumstances before him• would enable hint to. decide it. Notwithstanding all, that had been said about his' reading papers--the length of time i it occupied, and so on, lie felt k to he his bounden duty to proceed in there matte's' according to' the interpretation put upon the, statutes---an interpretation not put by himself, tint by hie peedeceasorg, who felt themselves bound in law strictly to 4.1i1).4)1 j r to then, '.'Theta woold he ma difficulty in deciding who. thee ; they benknipt was iii trader or not, if tha . fiat* had Wave : laid teore him. , There were, he conceited, materwitriveereprin tmrs Nod publiaberOot taksepapiets,,. Naito but little to tin with the. ' buying and selling, AAA *me might be other ptintere mad.; prOT- 1 listiere of nevi err .wito wesslergo dia . ** as buyers and senora. i Wit respect to the third leading and , importa nt question—the tnoti es ,imputed to , the potties—out of respect to the Yke- t ChaUcellOr, and in regard to the, case itself, he should read all ai the iflidarits. Every syllable of his judgment in ex-parte Whsle!t he Myer adhered to. A man Might have a very' bid Motive . for laltitig' out a commis sion of hankrnptcy, but if he Svelte - hi teak; it out for the pttrpoae of using it IA a' commission, be : hi coal not say that the • proceeding wa s wr on g . The q uestion in t . present case was, was the commission t a ken out ' for the 01 up* s poll** 'of preventing the' trial of the action ? The 'ti deci on of that point would depend entir el y u p on the evidence, ,o] Mad his he wontil reed in the cour se of the week. ' :With respect II to tl . order which lied been made by the Vice-Chancellor; no ex.. planation had . ye. beers given with t'espeet to it, and he could nut le .niulerstatul it I nor had ha found any out who could say how it a could by carried into effect. In enocluaiiiii, he:could not avoid seying, that with respect to the decisions of' , himself, or of either S the Vice Chitteeliceot 'Mastar of:the Hells, they ought fairly to I bee nsidered, not singly as the deeieions of the individual men, but .corn itied, tuibMirAtg trite end oorifittning the opinions and &cis 1 ti `6Oll of their predeceasort. . : . , Mr. . . ' Mai , CUAN V. TrAliG.' t the'conclusion, of the day, this matter WO mentioned by . Mr. 1-font4st. ' , Two long effidavits were produced: ,the our that of i lieverend Dr. SO* and the other of the 'Reverend Dr. Curtis, ' both of them rcititribtdore, to diffefrent portions of mr. Tag 'n work, called " The London Encyckpeedio." Tha . af fi vavite were read at length.. They admitted that some porciatut of the plaintiff's work had' been copied,' but denied' that it had bra carried, to the extent which had been alleged. • • in . • som instances the compilers 'of the '" Eieyelopeetlia , lifetrolia::. Maim," had copied word for word from the " Edinburgh Ga ietieer," and because the defendant had , taken from the lame work, they Were saitl to have.pirated the plaintiff `n work, Where: as tpc plaintiff wan the i..iratitin the first ira,tarols. The 'same observation, e dght apply to au infiraity . of other ports ot, the wink. Thel article, • for instance, ; upon the " Arunilelian • Marbles," also, said to haie been cople, wail taken from the " Encyclopiedis Perkhensie," and another article 'WAS taken from Elninilton's ,Lunt Julian Gazetteer. What, therefore, the plaintiff hail ternied original matter, collected and put together with infinite trouble and; expence, turned out to be.servile copies, . and the defendant was to be accused' of copying from those copies, when he, as well as the plaintiff, might as easily consult the original. In the comae of reading these affidavits, Mr. Marie threw ont some Observations. Mr. Canto shortly spoke on the same aida, and the 5ar,u3.1.011- GENII:RAI, and .lr. LOAM/4r appeared for .the plaintiff. this Lordship promised to read the affidavits, and to give his opihiori neon them." . --- , . , . - W , i4l,VrtJt4 VlSlTATlONeditesctity a, yottng.nian, named Brookes, a butcher, residing near tito . C..ito vs a ll fewouse, Cam berwell. was seized with alit of apoplexy, arid in minutes expired. The deceased a short time previous to the attack op peered in perfect health. belong SINOULAR CI ftetnrlST ANCE.---.Tlie Setter ,: , . . ing to the boat at the Preventive Station, at Leap, relates th e following :—That being on the urinal look out on Thursday morn, ing sennight, he saw, drifting up the Weft Channel with the b thls, a entail host, or punt, apparently without any Anic in it,hut on Pulling: Along title he found in !lie hottoin .Of the boat ail obi nian be,ween 60 and 70 years of age, so very eabanAteli as to he speech-. les& and without the use, of his limbs, but ti i 1 temedieebeing lip-, plied he recovered, and gave the following singular account of hint "lt Ile 140* that he belonged to Portsmouth, and that he had belo to Chitheater in his boat to fell seine, Oingv, ern! was ,e -turning out of ieheo m hsvhour,.whott,b4;hoialeil hY :!' ,, Y I* l kil etk (the.wirta being favour AO an old,brced big. and'tbst on reitch.; ing t* mouth of the harbour, he, leuntlhis limbs become so Use less that he use obliged to lie at the bottom,of the boat and leave Isle l o ad. actually been driven by l a nnisell to chance. Ile drifted out to sea by, way of St. Helen a, * , I Wight, and came in the current completely round tbe West. a p „,, e i 1 . igen* way w , sent over r o .p'' w " picked up It this Leap boat. --The man 4, fast wo , v - InitZ!..,....l4l,loriu.t9lth,tafiriteza,,ltiteb.y.the Preventive boat, rind t, i. . total, thelVii,E2l,"isTs**-7:ne retti . rn, for the year 18'25, o_ , cr 4 c9nnected with culift , rences In the tinited States., report 4 the ain ' • a: Qunt to be 291,607 whiten, 411, 338,04,0, together 464 , ,433 coloured Indians. This i s ~,i • of 19,672. The `travelling thettme3- duringthe Ye ' ar' . phiicheri are 1231, being Art ineriase of 42. , POLICE INTELLIGENCE. - . BOW-STU:BT.—An investigation of a rather extraordinary nature occurred Millis offirenri Wedneaday evening. A n e ld e rly well dressed man, named ...:-- Shonllnook, a foreman in, the, empley of KerryenciForrest,tailors, o ftury-street,Seiantes's,presented him self before - Mr. Miateeitita , in the early part of the day, 'end beg ged to have his Worships Advice -.—He said his wife ;scented ,hint a attempting to poison her and her eleven children I—and her children encornaged her in makieg so unnatural, an accusation against him. 'As he considered it to be a. conspiracy on the part of hie fatnily th get rid.of biro, he begged him Worship t o have the parties before him, that he might haeo au , tipportuaity of. excul patinghiMself. .Accordingly in the evening be was in attendance with his friends,, and his wife earne, attended by five or six of their grown-up sans rind daughters, 'all of them manifesting very un becoming feelings towards their fathet. • Mrs. Sheiollon4oitated that she had been in the habit of hav ing a basin of water by her bedside at night, and on the night in. question," 'icing in bed with he r husband and their youngest child, she topic this, basin and drank some of the water. She thought it had A very disagreeable taste, hut she gave some to her child, who, When it had tatted the water, refused to drink, and lacteal* suddenly very, sick. imagining that there must he something wrong, in the water, ,she obtained a light, and perceived a. white sedimentat the bottom of it. She sent this the next morning to chemiit's, who sent word back, that the whitesediment in the basin was arsenic; she therefore believed that it was put in the water by'llet: husband, who hasior, sonic time been jealous of her, and hak the morning before this attempt on her life, told her that their youngest child was none of his! , The finding of the stuff in the basin, and the alleged jealousy of the litishand,Avere all deposed to, in a very vindictive strain, by a female friend of Mrs. Shoolirrook. The husband asserted his innocence; and Medlieott, an officer, stated that be took the supposed poisoned water to Mr. Clarke at Apothecaries Hall, and he handed aletter from that gentleman to Mr. Minshull, which stated that the sediment found in the basin wan not poison. , It consisted of sotne small perticlee el lead end iron, and lime. The lead and iron, it war not at ell unlikely, might letie been contained in the material of the basin, which was a:common yellow•one--.4uch as are told in the streets by the hawkers. Serieral witnesses on the part of the husband stated that the child,. which Mrs. Shoolhreok alleged to have been taken sud denly,ill on drinking some of the water, had been ill more than six wrks ; and some of them did not hesitate to say, that this was'a• charge got up against the husband by his wife, to drive hint from tome. Shoalbrook said this was but ton true. lie then asked his wife's witness if she did 'not airy on the night in question, when taking thia. haion of water np stairs for his Wife's tree, that the water was remarkably elear. . , •. ; This the woman acknowledged haVing said, h4t she Could not cay wlty she had taken particular notice of the water that night. Mr l hitstsrau Lt. said there did not seem to him to he the slightest foundation for the charge; and he thOught the.husband was vfry much to he pitied. Sheolbrook said his wife bad now got what she. wanted—a se parate n ; for, he could never go home, again. And he added, very flood-nattiredly, that he did not think she meant to hurt him in bqging this charge against him. M4RLBOROUGH-STREET. Thomas Amen, of Brewer treeti tailor, and his wife, appeared before Mr.; ROr., on a *at:, nt, iharged with annoying Mr. Nutt, of, No. A, Great Ryder. treet e St. James's, attorney. Mr Nett was accompanied : by his wife. 1e said Bassett and his elle were. in the habit 'of' Calling at his honee; and inquiring' j for his son. He wati'told that' Bassett had a demand against his et fo r e clothe". He and his wife told 'Hassett,that their son was eg these fotie years, and bad au establishment. of his own , a n d me ted that their house might not be annoyed for their He had no right tnhave his house besieged in such a man ner, and' he told Bassett that he could !nab. bullied. He wail' award, that many tradesmen had recourse to- violence to get pay- , ment for their bills, instead of seeking redress by legal Interns, He eentqed protection for himself and, his family against the rudeness, 'oldie' tailor and his wife* • • Ms's. Bassett said that Mr. - Notes son had no establishment of • his,oin, for she always saw him at his fat her ' s house. The bill was astly, 41. for clothes, and was due one year and a half. She cotarest efford.to lose such a small stun in these bad times. She wus tild that the father and son were in partnership, and she eicPerted that e tb e eon . Would o at. pay ,We ,iemaret, that thektbefencratild have the honour eri do 60. . Hoff behaved to her in the . itidest; tnaosier, he took her by the shoulder, pushed her violently Aonns stairs forced her into the street, *wet eleeptai the hall door in her fee*. Mt. Nott A rktiowle!lsed (kit he honed her nut. 'at his house, but be hint a right to dose. lie Seas 'lot obliged to pay his son's debts, Ind if Mrs. Btncett's husband had any demand against his son, he ad e remedy for: it in Jaw. Ms. Baseett• wild that the house did plot ,belong to Mr. Nott , tvtis only a lodger. She )(new that tite on was conetaled in the , . . . Rni said it was 110 matter whrther he wieforiCealtol•tlere • n t, MO i'llott shout& not he soma etl for his son's debts.. to in hatt.hoen a *saintlier ••tt.wouhl he to. exenea. , Thera way ily,one coutar for Bassett, ,to talra, and , that was to peek redress moil& 'hi s ataortiey. . - flaseett-:-Oli,' your Worship, wojtkl you - have me' go to law ithi an• attoine.Y . for 4J. It - would' he throwing good money i if ter bout. .. 4 • it r. Boa, said, M. the principal charge wee against Mts. Bhi tt, it 9 should cei wilily hohl.lier to bail, not, to annoy. Mr..Nott ty noire. • , . - . ~ . 'A, respeitablo loOking young man was brought up i n . the Cue ' it deffaci7 4 tier& in HYile.park. todyi, of i beadle, chard"wit : . ing , - l i v v T to beadle said, he saw th o gentletritin sitting on one of th e . seat with - a -Jetty, ,and-'obeerv*l.' him Cutting it with 4 penkn i t4 ., Ile ant up to him, 'and found the seat marked in several,placee wit the letter " V." cut out, which very much defacid the seat. fle ook'hlne into custody, tiOtehly to his orders, and brought hint to this office. -. • , . . The young gentle Man excused liinuielf by saving, that he was but a few days come from Gloucestetaltire, and was unacenainted with the regulations of London 'and he vieinity. Ileswai on his war to visit Kensington Hardens, accompanied by a young lady, whelp they sat down on One of the, *vita in Ilyde-park to rest themselves: •fie did not deny pitting the hittet " V." on it ; bat h e was not aware of being Itsfify of any offence by doing so. A gentleman, whivAaid •hatwas the uncle, corroborated 'the , statement of his nephew, as to his being a novice in this' great eityi Rod ignorant of its ways. , , - Mr. Roe said threw se ats in the Park were put there for the aenortimodation of the public , and should be protected. 11. shoild overlook the present oflimce, believing it to he done in ig 1104110e, `and: should tlitichat go the gentleman on paying a shilling • for his discharge. • ,- I the sitting 'l'l7 s:i l i t i° t .f it 'EN o tri l i n i(ll . l lkl AB M l :4 l : i ia a' , ' i s t -- 1 - ' n 1) ; a:te al i: 1114118(14;u*S4w:414-11)1BpxrjurguiTilinicsiti Tl‘SS.4°Ast ' m ` b:TliQLSYl7t:beArlid-olars3:: Elmo. for a secoml examinatien on a charge of having opened the coral necklace. The a par ntl ei s e t i ot ot e r u s thocireftrho.inc;tirtise toaggiitlt,wr:uthteia, S'",',tt will be recollected, *eared in our Police Report of yesterday, snd, be: was reittandia for the purpose of giving,Mrs, Martini the'wife efAhe comp ant , alt opportunity nfattsinfling to prove that it' %vas with - het' sanction, the prisouer had pledged the necklace which.be•WM .110,e charged veith.hsving noleu. The offire, as on the day befoie, Warethronged with eeieutifie into of the, " Astic•line," the f r ie n d s 440 partien. - . I?ront , Martins ap• psaranec it, would seem that ltri4e In it raped ameuMPtinu- lie was (uplifted into the office o t oerstehes, and had that hectic flush , in his cheeks which dettotee'thslast stage of * pulmonary. CORI , - plaint. flint wife, tilt th e e thse • , it lend, watt the view, of heelth. She tcippetki t ito th e s ee ee ani v . w ` to the Magistrates' 004 gaily hedjaeott(l out' in style, with profusion of nodding plumes of feathers ill: her bonnet.. Ho husband, who w**,granted the ia dolgenee .of having a than.i.no liEcount of .his very; ill state of health, she looked on with 'the, most perfect indifference, while ; eve!) , now and _theta she was ohiterved to throw the moat favour able glauttes toward* " Data:Alum": who' We. CeefiletAhrithie' the intr. Since the first natal teem oliciLl' re h ad been vogeged by the complainant anti the priisseri and they were cow in attend-, antA. to conduct the busiews o f their clients. , Martin, having repeattsi the,..par t i ou lars of the alleged charge egaiosti,Puteh Stint, which he! '''AMifeloe i r A ' 44 / 1 4 7f . cud "'Lich has already appeared, the fortrter l inderwent . a Veiy. ritidoy4,;,:, r umination by Alt. Lte, the ,ettornelp. and -114 did not vary, in fhe slighteet degree front hie;original . statement, but firmly be itileeveacorpaliliceeckkShawnle,44whillrehlevellaalbett4aceBl4 , eu tn i'' 74 lh pa ill yn d lb sk r ' o r ke 4s w esi e l j t i th u s, 1:0 5 0 0 4, 1 : 040 , 40 esbeequeotly ascettainea to have been pledgad there by the prisoner. - " " • ' George Loyd, a wa it er i s Martin s service, in reply to the Mtlgistrates qu'esfis ns : „,jayit ia e potch Sam w as oo the most iotintate footing at .h ir ri - sta ter'a house previous -to the sudden 1111 "• unexpected devart4rt - 4 Mts. Martin from, h ome , sea the. rOttamg o the . money 'and ne,cilece fron t t h e dank. r Dutch st4Th used to bek all o'vii. 'vie house ; in Act, h, had timi o' its " piste run at the. 611" 'awl" his Inithiee'illoeitioold want vary , a ttentive—." v er y s s t so t i,,,, , c i st ieed," sa id th e wo i ttr , . 4. to my Mistress." ' - . , .it was hire contende'd by Martin's Salkifor, that a Prima fad* eatie,, , t coy, iserl ,_been •Ima ele , out agai,na Pfuko' tioT, while ~on the other side it was strongly urged : that there was no pretence for charging Dutch Sam with any offence, he hav ing Merely pledged the article which he was charged with having stolen; at the request of Mrs. Martin, who vitti-nerwalled on to prove that fact. ' The complainant's wife having been &wens, in reply to the Mar • gistrate, 041 that she was at her hushantl's house in the Borough on Friday last, - until the afternoon, at which' time ihe adinitted hiving decamped without his knowledge, previouslY having given . Dutch Sam her coral necklace to pledge, in order to pay her coach hire down to Reigate. ; Mr. DAVIS asked Mrs. Martin whether she coul4give any act count of the manner in which the 481. had been taken out of her husband's desk. Mrs. Martin-4 don't helieve. Mr ! Martin had that sum in his desk to be robbed of. I think he trumped up that story to get Mr. Dutch Sam into a hobble. Mattin, casting a look of contempt at his wife, declared, that she, stated a falsehood, as she was well aware that he had that sum de posited in his dale. Mr. Davis here expressed his surprise that Mrs. Martin should have employed Dutch Sam to pledge her necklace. Why, ob served the Magistrate, did you not ask your husband for money if you wanted it? Mrs. Martin---My husband has been in the habit of ill-treating Me, and he uniformly refused. giving me money. Martin was about entering into a statement of his wife's in trigues and infidelity to him since the commencement of his se rious illness, but was stopped short by the Magietrates, Who ob served that they had nothing to do with his wife's amours, the charge of felony was the,offence which they now had before them, and they could not listen to any extraneous matter. Martin was then asked whether he could trace the notes that bed been stolen ? He replied that he was fearful he could not, on account of not having the numbers of them. After a great deal of recriminating matter passing between Mar tin and We spenee, in the course of which the lady appeared per fatly insensible to the disgraceful situation in which she then stood, the Magistritisobserved that the charge must be dismissed, and accordingly ga 4 directions to discharge the prisoner. The moment Dutch Sam was liberated from the bar, Mrs. Mar tin was about to join him, when Martin, by a desperate effort; rose froM the chair, and endeavoured to intercept her way into the passage. She tried to avoid him, and screamed aloud, while the unfortunate husband, exhausted by his exertions, and tortured in mind from the scene that had just passed, fell insensible into the chair. When he recovered he begged that his wife mighthq sent. to her friends, instead of allowing her to. proceed with Dutch Sant- Ilia exhausted state, however, prevented him from lopking ,aft,er her, and she disappeared (tom the office in a twinkling after the 'iteration of Dutch San.. TRIAL BY JURY IN FRANCE. (From the Journal des Debras of Sunday.) The following circumstance, which is related in a paper of this morning u having taken place at the Court of Assizes of Versailles, .we extraet,Lalthough it appears strange to us, and ,we hope the ac- count is exaggerated " A girl, named Buisson, was cited before the Court on the 9th, charged with having !Olen watch. ; from the eon of a. Mr. with whom she lived as servant. It appeared in the course of the proceedings, that a certain degree of intimacy existed betiveen the girl and the Young man, who had given her the watch, either as an ornament, or to sell. The young men, however, denied having given it to her, and asserted he had only lent it to her; and that when she left his father's house, she ought to hate returned it. The girl; in her defence, said, that she had pereuide&the family that she was entitled to some property, end the young man having proposed a secret marriage, she left the house, knowing that inquiries would soon be set on foot, which Would invalidate her story;' and that when she went away, she had never thought of the.wateh, Which was suspended round her neck."--The Jury acquitted her. Tbe President of the Assizes,' in pronouncing the acquittal, said to the prisoner, ". You' will he prosecuted for another act before . the C f s'n-reetientil Tribunal ; there you will not escape justice, and you will not find so great'en indulgence in judges as in jurors:" Mr. our of the jurY--Sir, ;the jury desire me to tell you, that they have decided according to their consciences : this its the third tints you eensuire ne-- The President,. (warmly.).--Yon have no business to speak, Sir ; you wee not the forenntri of the jury. The we The Presideot.--You have no hiseiness to u prak.—(Murtnuring in the jury -box.) Several Jurymen.:—We decide on our consciences, it is a The President.—Silence it is possible to decide eons - den. tiOusly, and yet commit an error ; it would, not require man gy similar examples to compromise the existence of juries: ;* • enconraketnent. - • The noise, which' had- been increisif►g the whole ' ti►he, here drowned the President's voice. ABDUCTION OF A CHILD BY SWEEPS Yesterday' evening, about seven o'clock, is a car with *number of children on it, belonging to the Foundling Hospital,' was passing through Kevin4treet, a low-sized sweep seised one of them, with which he ran off, and in Cutfe-street, meeting a master sweep, who appeared to be waiting for him, he handed him the child ; they then made off as quick as possible, pursued by a-number of pertains, and' deposited it in a parlour at the rear of a butter's shop in Oigges-street, kept by a man named .Leary. The crowd which this audacious transaction had collected, attracted the attention of -Peace-officer Clarkson, of the Head Police-office, who wets fortu nately pairing At the time, and who, on ;being informed of the circamatances, proceeded to search the premise's. Having received a good deal of obstruction from Leary's wife, he sent for a party of Kevin"-street Police, With tvhose assistance, after a search of nearly two honrs, the little fellow was discovered under a bundle of straw in A corner of the room. The fright ha was in must ec. (quint why he did 'not make any Amin, and from the state he appeared in at the Head Office, it is probable that during part of the search, he was in the chimney. A number of persons attended this day at the Ilead Office, and lodged infor nuttions against the parties ; and as warrants ate in the hands of the officers, there is very little dotibt of their apprehension. A Gentleman from the Hospital attended, the Governors of which are determined on using every exertion in prosecuting the wretches engaged in thii shrieking outrage. The name of the child isiohn Lekhvich, and ha appears to be about fiveyears old. Mrs. Leal has been committed to NeWgate.--DuNiri Patriot. FEVER IN DUIILIN.—The fever, we regret to state, is every day extending; the hospit and even the A pr temporary sheds fitted up fur•the rece on of patient', are all full, besides which, we understand that 300 fe ver patients are lying in their own rooms, from the im possibility of e t a commodatingthemin any of the hos pitals. The fever as yet' is confined t 9 the working classes ; but an epidemic, and very c ontagious dysen tery, prevails generally throughout the eity.—Dublin. Correspondent. 'hug UNIVAS FRAtRUM.---The united brethren have now nine. Bishops in their church, four ,in Ger many, two in the, :Linked Kingdom, and three in America.. _ FORB E AR A - ---- --- Set;. —WhenP r e et ric :pa las til id ce t an he d ni sil aft e a i g ic e e - , ient of state affairs at Athens, a vile and abandoned f n ellow pursued him a whole day with reproaches awl &Misc. Petioles bore it with ge anA,withottt showing any ernotioN continued to trans act public business. In the evening, as he walked hoine, the vociferous patriot, follov.red and i t u t i o t et d ak i l i cina Willi the ,most irritating and scurrilous language It leas dark when , be, reacbed biao .. wu door ; h e en i - p,,,7,1 and calling tale of : his serviints,, , de‘iled Mitt -,.. s 4, torch and light the man home. The laborious task of underpinning House is now in full 'activity. hhhotieOfofthethe Custom sou th i frpnt of the -Long-room i s T h epulled wi f T le ' °f 4 1 t h'etiii and west ends a that stupendous -°wlls :and is wonderfully supported with shores of tin,h ;whicho f great blilatdi:itgatria, ag ncl rind m 7 magnitude, A i n tud e e x , ca t v b a s tio s ii ig s e e ar ve tb rt 'fiteitwahlbilg is t e il :li ed . t :To t : I : I - 1 h i i li ii : a° w (r. et h h e ° r where a °antt '1 mound:least of rcatg 'length and h ei g ht is a li ei dy _formed. w P rktniti 116vi ' in the emp loy eicoed aliundiail:, tAST INDIA SHIPPING. ARRIVAif AT, ST. JAG% CAVV iIE CVOCkitY, froirrLondon the 10th May ; the Adrian, Brown, iStis ditto, the 14th ; Chapman, stilhank, from ditto, Shd 15th ; km. lanta, Johniion, from dirto, cad Hooghly, Reeves, from Cork, tikt 18th • Pahnyra, -Lamb, from ditto, the 19th; Bonavista, Far rent,.'from London,`,tlie 28th ; and 'the Nelson, Bews, - froat ditto„ 21st June. c; S AILI RGS TR02 , 1 Sr . I _TOC..ocY, gang gapore, May 13 ; Adrian, Brown, and Chairman, Milbank, for New. South 'Wales, May 17 ; : Atalanta, Johnsow, for Bomb*. May 26 ; ,Hooghly, Peeves, for Ceylon, May 20; Palmyrsu Lamb, for Ceylon, May 21 ; 'Bonavista, Towns , for the Mau ritius, June 3 ; and the Nelson, Bews, for the Snnth Sea,. 24th June.. . . ARRIVAL AT ST. HRLICRA...The Caroline, Chi ere, frosts Su matra, May 23i and sailed the 25th for Sa N lem. A RRIVALS AT MAZATTAN.--Tbe erope t from rip l " e v, and China; Carmelite, from Bengal ; and the itlanilia paclur.. from Biapilla. ARRIVALS AT Rio JANEIRO.--The Regalia, Burt, from Cork, May 1.7 ; Hope, Burns, from the Cape, June 7 ; and the Prpheus, Duff, 'from London, June 14„ , Ssitioos FROM Rio JiNaiito. —Th. Richard and JohStn. , Woodward, for the Mauritius, May 13 ; Ann Dunn, tor Helena, May 14 ; and the Reg alia, Burt, for New South Witeat Mal , 24. CARIZ.-..The Lady Campbell, Murphy, was to tail from his for London, 28. iIIISCELLANEOUS. A Duly of the ol \ ‘'o „school, who keeps her carriage, desired to be informed ti;.s.other day, whether Nov* ------ - Scotia was a city or a village. . . vr_ ! hip RESPECTABLE ANCESTRY.—T)e T el* in history of the Knights of Malta, relats.c:s,44l4itli Matra._ metan leader of an insurrection being g westiorgi in the presence of his army as to the genuineiteS's of 'his de-, scent, drawing his sword, exclaimed, " inert is sass father and mother, and here (scattering a :handful a gold among his soldiers) are all m y relations .llnd Pr°7 genitors?' The genealogy of th e chieftain was' I)ighlY: , approved of. RwrAttAiioN.—A gentleman who sat in the MI" , lour 'of an inn, while his fellow-travellers were dining , was charged for , dinner himself,—the assertion that . 1 )* had taken nothing,- being of no avail. l iar a d few day a l s .' calling alone . .at the same house, aske landlortl whether they made small q uantit s ies ti or particular . delicacies. " Any quantity we. teply. When dinner was served up , gale began singing in the room : t he Gentleman expressed a wish to the waiter to have the nightingale for his dinner. " The price of the bird is a guinea/. Sir."—" Of the whole bird ?"—" Yes."—" dress it, if you please."—The bird was served tip l!cf' t/ cordingly. . " Your master, would make any of any thing in the house," said the gerrtlern . • 7 4 , let Me have two-pence worth of your night ;, '... ..• ' • the We understand that the delay in the sidling°he el, a Dightin. steam' vessels destined to join Lord Cochrane 141 ,i occasioned, not by 'the interference of Government, ot! by another circumstance, which we sincerely hope in equally, nnfOunded. It is con fi dently consequence of some glaring defects to the rnachinerYi those who undertook to superintend, their coristructi°l'i in order to free themselves from the onus which P lus bear: so heavily on them, recommend the Captains ue i be proceed to sea with the sails, alone ! Should there ... the lightest foundation for the above rumour; we" tu_ ... ..' for the credit of the parties themselves, and the itit#7 . -. 1 „; :. of Greece, that the defects alluded to may be aisgMv teii/letlied, anti no more hue lost in dispatching 7, 1 vessels in question, as, without them, the pre gee Loid Cochrane will be almost unavailing. On ,' asserted, that in should they be sent in their present do er ; ottkh'eiratiittlaels.di't is needie lem ss au.it t : o eedd dw tho r e i rt l eb o se_ n G th Trei e enkt e es i s r ,. ib w a li rr o a i sS: e r- i s no engineers capable of appfying a.remedy to the err.lo w ao bi t e lii h fo w :tt u m id at b e e ly ti ;o u n s NATIVE, ,NEwP/I.,PERS IN INDIAr-1:0101C1.1Y g there w as onlyth e the native language; in the course 'of Stier . yell" , 11:ti'o'nitowflash one neliipiper published - in 11)& 4 ilt nuMbeY'has beeirmereased to six ; four in Lien ; and two in Persian. The first is the Suninchur : the political. h i e n d tel i i n ige l it t e B o . f i t t lie gi :e s ek 4l, ti ff ? notices concerning the most remarkable e vents an rte Vr COrieS in Europe, and two and aoinetint ies n: iily „ columns of articles amusing and instructive, StesThe supports the interests of the British Govertirne nt * t he e u t e li x t t ors tw e ( f ) which, not no are t h ev il in e - g ' e 9 a g s n y t . li s e e d ces C s:t7 i ! ,fi h rellan t 'gi t i te papers, borrow their political intelligence fro° ' l 4 ' Durrit ; they, give a .weekly summary of " I te ge accidents, in town andtountry, and sometimo s-othir, in controversy, occasionally virulent, with Wit m a id' the one advocating Hinduism, and the other des taming more liberal sentiments. Another pi s j paper' advocates all the superstitions and ntio c ot s o the golden age.. The two Persian' papers are 11 , 0 , well 'known ; they are suPPoked,to be filled voitn_,ive tracts from the papers which issue from the ";.„,, ,Courts,l.and 'to detail-the ••iiiiinteresfing 'anti ll ein i ' lle toil movetnettts of. the native , princes, Sie; soft number of Subscribers to the six native p tai l , apeo e l .01 estiaiitted at from eight 'hundred to a ttl'''' l i' 0 4) perhaps there 'may be five readers, allotted t paqier,----The Friend ef India. i• an .1 • LONDON DIARY, Mo>inAY, , Aix uta (At tits Court of Connuivaioners,) at ji J. E IVPII E. SParT, 13i1hapigitt.ttiniket,Witkato, irrognOnger'.., W. !Turner, Colaman- stress, plasterer ............. .• , T.' W. Norfolk-street, Strand, hottl-keel ).r J. K. Wooster, Middle-row, straw-hat-xnaker MEETINGS OF 'CREDITORS. COUbTTRY R DIAY. 11. Chittenden, Ashford , Kent, at the Gu ildhall, trtY it ig bury . . .... ....... . ............... -• •" ' ..... • ji J. Eivliank, Leughburough—Eing'• Head ... . 4 E. Hills, Esveraha m hlhal i, Can terhu f •••••' I A. Hooriet, Wtireetter-0-4lnicorn, Woreetter ..... t • • * , 3. Hoc, ilrbitshaven.—Elack Whitchaven • ."'"iieu, Hutchinson and Co., St lona T fi lak 11 _ot pet-- 11 Stockton-on-Tm C. and T. Simkin, Leek, Stalf —.. ordshiteGeorte , I° S. Starling, Poole---London fiaverr, Poole •• ....... . ... ---- A MARRIED. ftst „ o f' On the 12th inst., in Upper Deal, Ricluta Tri, e i n — b e th E l6l ' r Lieptenant his Majesty's ship Rar;silliePitr" "te! d K a i ng ,at h e, ter be if d i in ol a in eer lie o rul f F ers ,thu on, c Ei o i lleg . a o . fll.llthilit u " - pl . 4 eoletN4 last eek, at Itton College, tne Reit: w•- " of Mouksilver, Somerier, t o M ary , 6 ,1,4i -daughter „ 4 „,, • .1 10 On Tot/14 Bar n ' Tot/14y, the 15th inst., at rnitaplor 1;0 ll the 04 f. R. King , of Barnstaple, eurplihlaLjruotostiltif fr (laughter of Robert Linnington, Esq. of ~ ,AOSo John Fredesirk. Mitch, r&tri; Ereinik...md daughter o f t h e to e , i m :01, pPi• 144"114411-1Iak, iwthe count) of Sulfigli- On ,„, 1 dsoay,o:':nhiatiWtimnlertonmed::Ptii:rio:Yins,st,thuhat., a,swittlystoonli:si.ilia.Pasruertill.cihiditawaedi lelfet FAR., lAte of the %naa fi total of Dorso ► iso ' s"*" sos v' Orinitmi as rWbiiidi pr lOUttei NI 410 - • (1. d